Overtime you’ll realize a few things about the affiliate marketing industry,

• The initial learning curve is huge

• It requires a lot of patience and determination

• There’s a lot of hard work that goes into the initial stages of building campaigns, researching, trying out things, etc

• you need to understand the idea of ‘spending money to make money’. Much of your initial money will be spent on trying out things and although you may not see any income straight away, you’ll be learning a lot and that’s where the value is.

• Anyone can do it if you stick with it long enough and are serious about it

At this stage you should have ample amount of data to make this a profitable campaign.

Mind you, many campaigns don’t make it to this stage but often, with enough data you can increase the chances of getting here.

The Right Mind Set

I’d also like to point out that many beginners, (I included), set affiliate/campaign goals as reaching a point of $x amount consistently a day. There is no such thing in affiliate marketing. You can have days where your campaign brings in $300 profit, other days it brings in $50, without you even touching anything. There’s just way too many variables in this industry.

What I now aim for reaching record days. For a campaign that I have hit $300 profit, it’s safe for me to assume that on average this will bring me $150/day including the best and worst days. This doesn’t mean I’ll see $150 days everyday but it means after averaging out my profit over a certain period of time I get $150 or so a day.